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The European Union's General Court court took Hamas off its terrorist list this past December. Hamas has used Palestinian women and children as shields during the 50-day war with Israel this past summer. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel to terrorize the civillan population. Members dug tunnels from Gaza into Israel with the intent to kill innocent civillans. Its charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews worldwide. When did Hamas become a respectable member of the international community? Some of these EU countries were complicit with the Nazis in sending their own Jewish citizens to the Nazi death camps. It is disgusting that these countries...

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The European Union's General Court court took Hamas off its terrorist list this past December.
Hamas has used Palestinian women and children as shields during the 50-day war with Israel this past summer. Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel to...

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Knit & Pearls in Avon, CT is hosting a charity knit to provide warmth and security to Romanian children. We are partnering with Avon native, Matthew Brennan, who works for World Vision and their Knit for Kids program. Knit for Kids is a nationwide...

With this week's release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report, scientists from across the world lit another torch of urgency for climate action. Three previous working group reports from the climate change panel went...

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Oklahoma began lethal injection in America. And the state has brought the nation the latest sickening...

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The separation required a rebranding, an...

When the dyspeptic poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who loathed Belgium even more than most things, was asked to imagine an epitaph for that nation, he suggested: "At last!" Which is how many Europeans feel about the rapidly growing...

"Weltmeister Deutschland! Jaaaaaaaaaa!" reads the celebratory front page of Germany's most popular daily newspaper, Bild. Germany won soccer's World Cup and the victory is a symbol of the country's resurgence.
Last time Germany won the World...

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MADAGASCAR — What's this lemur doing in my lap?
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I'm in the open dining area of rustic Camp Amoureux near Madagascar's remote Kirindy dry rain-forest reserve, where...

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Let us cut to the chase: What happened in Egypt this past week was a brazen power grab by the military. Call it a coup, a putsch or an overthrow of a legitimately elected president: It is certainly a dangerous precedent that must be condemned.
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